Spring Fling

Spring Flingby Kristen Dyment

PLYMOUTH, NH- With binge drinking lasting until the early morning for four consecutive days, The calm after the storm- known as "Spring Fling", may lead to post-party depression.School work piled up, ignored in the name of fun. Old friends visited for the weekend. House and bedrooms, streets, and yards are trash ridden. Relationships are broken, made, and rekindled. A semester's worth of partying summed up in one weekend.In the real world does in matter that you can party until five in the morning day after day? Does it mater that you can drink twenty beers over the course of a day?No, it probably doesn't matter. But for one weekend at Plymouth State University, the sole goal of many people is to get wasted and be a crazy and uninhibited as possible.For some there is nothing like getting kicked out of parties for being too loud. No task like talking nonsense to landlords who want you to vacate their property as soon as possible.There is joy in invading the neighbor's house with the Music of George Clinton and the P-Funk. As you dance solo in their living room begging for someone to come and get down to "Brick House" and "We Want the Funk". There is the pleasure in talking back to cops who tell you as you walk on a public sidewalk "you can't be here", you respond with "you can't be here", as you quickly boogie down the street.For others the question of waking up in the morning and wondering "who's couch am I on and where did this pit bull I'm spooning come from?" While other may elect to pick up the phone and call that ex with the drunken excuse "I just wanted to see what your doing?" (Sure at 3:00 AM).It's Monday, May 10, 2004, and collectively the campus is still suffering from a hangover. For one weekend everyone forgot their worries, acted on impulse and let themselves get crazy. Let us embrace these memories that aren't completely there.